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IT do not think that could give better ad:
vice to those who intend to spend brief period
camping out this summer than to recount the
line was mere boy then. and economy was
the prime requisite OF the OCCASION. My mind;
Of course, was fired with accounts ! mad read
and shS 'i In tho ipnsies Of South America.
shore OF Moose6ead Lake or ofsieepng under
the open sky beside banana tree In fucatan ;
but In my waking moments ! was sensible
enough to realize that such projects were ut
terly Impossible, and only to be realized l4 the
distant future, !! am happy to say that have
short at camping out had to look near homo.
There sEs pond aSes
snnds t assiEl Woedsd IN t. and the neigh
boring country abounded with all sorts of
anglers. The first question. Of course. to no
settled, was how to get tent. We could not
think OF buying one ready made-they we're
and the result was highly satisfactory In that
We got tent that was perfectly waterproof
dnd sTSe eent and e Total
the outfit lay within 50. To begin with. We
made up our minds that we would limit the
that II the tent were six feet long and about
snssnt 20 sess Ia s and sact
our pots and kottle. After considerable tigur;
ing and gsometical cseSatiopTss " we decided s,
quality ofunbleaohed cotton cloth II remem-
5sF Ee ct the as was srp sn S Ssas
4 shoemaker to stitch them together. Two
sdr se aarS yard sSd faa fs9us the
sides, became the main portion OF the tent
which wss to b simple ks The gSss;es Of onS
stitsSinR 70 make tho ends q he tent out o
the remnants. but We uaRaAsRAd - Do II and
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one or two Of tho marty went up to the village
grocery and secured a fresh invoice OF molas-
sess We G bought from farmers in the vicinity
Milk We used no, ,d pt al during n the time I'VE We
little papers OF sugar salt, and pepper for. sea
soning. Our diet consisted almost exclusively
Of fish chowder,with CRACKERS and molasses for
able failure, and would not advise anybody to
put them into stock for camping out
Tho feature In which we were most igno-
rant In our trim was that Of cooking thought
ilsh cfowder. / could boil coffee or eggs. and
ended. As n consequence not one In tho party
lost less than ton pounds In weight during our
study up cookery, so as to be able 10 set before
the campers healthy and nutritious food. for
hs seno Of rng w2e in
the open air and on the ground will he lost. l
do not need to tell you now Il cock the various
which the camp COOK should certainly learn to
prepares, Clam chowder and fish. chowder. Of
who 20 camping out choose the sea shore Tor
their location; Ono should learn TO prepare
bird stew, and II one learns about ono kind Of
fowl that will answer substantially for all
tho others that his hunters may happen to
get. He should also. learn to roast birds
aso ho SFG basS CLANS nos beoSe Ras
any ono would be so foolish as to set OF for
camping out without Of kRS S sSa 6 a the
know how to fry grijdle cakes and how to pre-
pare tea and coffee I'm tho best way. II one is
particularly ambitious he could learn without
very much trouble how to make corn bread
and II the camp. is located in the mountains,
far from any village, this is really an essential
the cook to learn how to prepare one dish
above all others, it would he baked beans. l
hour In glowing rhapsody about tho qualities
is q most important dish for camping out.
economical excursion. When it comes to a
party that wants to spend considerable money,
and can do so, there are many little comforts
that can be obtained and still not make the
occasion any the less useful orunidue, but you
would not have space to take half that might
money TO spend usually know Just whore to 40
for tho proper information about It. simply
Bear Lake cost, Including tho OUTFIT, 5000, or
less than 50 apiece"
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on it's journey. According to reports from the
sight. This may be exaggerated. but
was slow and tiresome, and 1t Is also certain
that after about one mile had been traverssd.
and the last house in the little village was ont
career in grand collapse. Montague, how
ever. was not yet willing to abandon the trans
to the village and in an hour or SO returned
with very heavy handcart that would have
several tons With perfect sae
gage was reloaded, and another mile or two
was accomplished, amid the increasing male.
dicttons Of the party upon the disconnected
but cheerful Montague. Darkness had como
on. and they were yet In no place for camp.
There was no water near no place TO- O. shelter e
that looked available for cutting down and
transferring into camp materials, and, worst OF
1.-THE darkness Rat wi n tropical rapidly.
and before they had got their tent In any sort Of
before their faces. 1t sounds like tho begin
ming Of q tragical tale, but the next morning
they made no effort to proceed before strong
country wagon and a stalwart country horse
had been chartered for the rest Of the trip;
After that they had 2 eomparatively easy ~, and {,
scratch for their grub.
Among the persistent campers OF this city
none has had a wider or more varied expert
ence than Mr.. G.. Fl. Armstrong This Sentle-
man has spent nearly all his vacations since
his boyhood in camping and from his hi first OK,
extended trip through the Yosemite Valley he
has CLEANED innumerable points which prospec-
tive campers may consider to advantage.
Speaking on the topic he said:
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them to the scrub oaks. II, as happened last
summer in the terrible ,squall which capsized
the boat OF Il Philadelphia pleasure party and
ropes break. the chances are that the shantles
will drag their anchors and DO at the mercy OF
wind and wevos.
From early spring until late lall these clam
ging" for clans with their immense rakes.
They come from Highlands. on the shrews-
bury River where the 4 famous highlf nd Lights
when there is good wind blowing down tho
river. the fishermen shove their floating shan
ties from their Highlands moorings. max fast
tho Horseshoe.
The houses anchored and moored work be-
gins A little. creek which empties into the
the small rowboats. AT half tide the
Fakes Ore thirty feet long and with, them
into the h waters Of the Horsesnoe, Then they
begin "chugGing." The little picture in the
initial letter shows o man chugglng in water
se en Of nSde the POLE Tie
upward and downward motions Of the boat on
the waves and its drift on, the tide cause tho
te yssndS s. s rakfa hSaty
man has to handle tho pole from lower down
and the WORK is more ,, d5imeult because more
"How can you tell, the reporter asked one
81 them when he b had como ashore when to
clans. The teeth are pointed with the finest
steel, and the sound kind o. travels right up
the pole. That's the sort O. music we likes to
Is that fair catchG" the reporter asked
looking into the chugsers boat, which was
about u quarter full.
CLAIMS. an l reckon there's about 1900 in
there"
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Does the size Of the clans make much
difference In the vain OF catchw
Them as Ia smallest ietches the most. Tho
teeth Of tho rakos Is about threeian9rters Of an
tween 'om. 4 catch Of 5000 clans, sizes as
thoy comes, Is worth about a."
How do you dispose OF them?"
We feed them to the yachtsmen, and the
railroad hands. and on Sunday to the land
lubbers who sit on vle pier and think they's
goin' to catch Ash. hen when we've collected
a boatload-that's 6.000-we keeps them 10 tho
creek whore they burrow down TO their bills IL
you leave them alone long enough, We takes
them up In our boats 20 the Hghlapds to a
wholesale dealer. He ships them TO Now York,
and from there they're shipped West or sold 70
retailers IN the CITY. They're sold as Little
the Horseshoers has the flavor"
T" Is this an old settlement"
Its only been hero since last summer;
Jonathan Layton was the pioneer. Why should
no row way down from Highlands and back
house on float. and down he comes. He was
lonely at first. an In ono o. the storms his
ahanty was carried clear up to the railroad
track an landed thexA.so that u Q tKakn had
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Haudcuned to His Sweetheart.
Fr0m fhs Athens Bannsr

Among the attendants at commencement f.
charming young lady from adjacent county, who 10
great favorta In Athens she Il Visiting downtown
family. On Sunday night last handsome young pro.
fesslonal whom we call Or Hanceok called upon aiss
There in the paror pair of hAndcunA DR.. Ham
cock jcstihgy proposed that they suffer themselves to
Miss spTigpns readily consented The handephs were
bound together After while they became weary %
this bondage hut discovered 10 their conIernAtionthAt
covered that the key was IN the possession Of Young
not expected homo until next day Tho young couple
decided TO make the best OF their suAton and spend the
nght sitting up. Fortunately, however. Just the
clock struck the possessor Of the key chAnced 70.
turn, and The handouts were removed.
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A Flock OF sheep Killed by LiGhtniAs.
Prom ne Pdu Hau GdIette.

Ono Of the most terrible instances OF the de-
,usiSo force 81 Lightning ever recorded hspRsnsd on
division OF Victoria West Cape Colony On tho evening
q that day n dock OF 40 ewes, belonging 70 MI
baidi tSr shelter. a. Il wm refining hard The light
building tearing and smashing doOra and wAllE and
killing in an instant 100 Of the mock OF t3O sheep
After this frghlful loss Mr. Thompson busied with
eEhesn mon Tor no sss than three days sknniny the
dead sheep storms In South Africa for
their force and yehemence The IrAhHyaal In pAEteu
lar aS Nj Rider HAGgard has told "a Often Visited
not uneommor such an instance OF Wholesale dssts1S
uon BY hghtAng " however, unprecedented
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Niraps aad Satan.
From Puck

Uncle Bethuoi tarriying homo from the cltyl
II tsl yer Kate Itsep big thing this uip Hossley,
mans honsS-HonmEn's friend OF hib-'n' showed mo
Bible paintin' called Maps an Satan" ItwAagreaL
tell ysl
Aunt Kats-Nlupst Nimps, Pears to me don't
recoIeo that air name IN SCRIPTURE
Uncle BsthueI-Thlfs what puszled me. Satan he
drAWsd pNin 'Roughi but when asked Moseley
who Nimps alp where ho in Oh photygrafl he
said nimps had been tshin near BY and had lest lsf
cause Tot o. gals he'd come daoun ter In bWim min,
He aald kimps WAS pew ful modest man, js4Eih'
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A peculiar method Of claiming, ia affected
Shrewsbury River. Thoy drive to the river and
leave their horses to eat the fresh grass
along shore while they wade over the muddy
here lie deep in the mud. The farmers feet
sink deep into the mud. When farmer feels
clan With his b iGos a NE % me aSr with n
let's the clam drop into the tub. or course
this requires some experiences. A less expert
clam farmer will stoop over and pick up the
clam with his hand. A good many farmers
drive over from Eatontown. Each will often
get q big tubful OF clans. But thoy eat all
they ret
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THE SUM- SUNDAY, JULY "a, 1ss7-TwELvE PAGES.

then we stretched our crude tent In. tho yard Of
one OF the party. Tho framework consisted
throo foot high. with Q ridge pole running from
one to the other. Over this the tent was
Rtrotched, and fastened In the usual way by
driving short stakes In tho ground and tying
the edges OF tho cloth firmly to them. When
the tent Yves IN this position we saturated 1t
for o night and day In the open DIR: after that
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LAMS. Chowder on
Sunday" This is the
sign which sends n
thrill through every
yachtsman who, sun
burnt and hungry,
sails Of n Sunday oven
ing into tho Horseshoe
at Sandy Hook. There
couldn't be q finer an
chorago for tho white
a m -
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CHUGGING FOR CLANS.
AN ODD LITTLE SETTLEMENT IN THE
HoRSESHOE At SANDY HOOK.

sh.nties that arc ut Times Ashore, at Times
Ansat-The Ynchtsmsn's Love for Chow
der-various Methods OF Hunting CLANS.
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come along his summer residence would ha
flood roceeded Il bore him OIL. an he managed
TO lassoo his moorinRs. This year Dave Miller,
Charley Carstead, and Bill Thorn have Joined
DO you own tho ground here2"
You bot. That fs. It's Government land, go
supposes wo owns IT, Anyhow, hero we are"
"1f0w long do you stay down horep"
It'll November. Then We have ourselves
towed back to tho Highlands. In winter we
churn for soft clans with hoes through holes
In the Ice. When we've lifted tho CLAIMS up q
little way on tho hoes we soap ,em with rakes.'
DO You ever work ut high tidoW
mo. The motion OF tho water makes the
pole bob too much. and tho rake wouldn't bury
Itself In the bottom. At low wator we some-
times wade with smaller rakes."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-27
Wooden Shoes Not Pawnab,e.

The wooden shoes in use among the
French peasantry have, l see, been intro
duced in London for children's wear. The
average English parent of the lower order,
it seems, is in the habit, as soon as some
charitable person gives its child pair of
shoes, of pawning them and investing the
proceeds in gin. As wooden shoes are not
pawnable the charitable have adopted
their use, and give them to the shoeless
instead of leather ones. The wooden shoe
is not IN very free Use with us. French
workmen III certain classes of factories and
shops where the floors are always wet have
adopted them, and you can buy them
in the French quarter, where they
form part of the stock of every small gro
Gerry store. Like snowshoes, they require
that the wearer shall be educated up to
them, and no one will ever wear them who
can afford to wear a leather shoe Leather
uppers with wooden soles are worn by
many workmen at work, and these are
clumsy and ponderous enough. When it
comes to shoe entirely of wood the
Anglo-Saxon foot must kick.-AFred
IruB.blc IN Neg York Ne1rs,
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TO EUROPE By PNEUMATIC TUBE.
A Protector Who Hopes to Travel One
Thousand Miles an Hour,

Colonel John III. Pierce, of Plantsyille
Conn, who claims that he can annihilate
space by shooting passengers to Europe
through pneumatic tube, called at the
Tribune office yesterday and expressed a
desire to be Intercepted about his scheme.
A reporter was deputed to perform the op-
Grafton, with result something like what
follows:
Colonel, how could you get the tube
laid ?"
"That is, of course, very important
thing, and when we get beyond the exper-
mental tube we shall have a better idea
of how 1t is to be done. That is, in fact,
the only thing in the whole project that
staggers scientific men. In laying our
hollow cable or tube we must provide
against the breakage of it. l purpose
having the outside made of WIRE with the
interstices filled with gum; then inside of
the wire iron and lining of steel. We
would need new appliances and machinery
especially adapted for weaving the wire.
think the tube or hollow cable should be
made as it is laid-that, of course, will be
an elaborate and tedious. process. We must
lay it from vessel larger than the Great
Eastern. / am afraid the Great Eastern
would scarcely do"
"What would be the shape of the con-
veyauce?'
1T would be like the projectile of dy-
Mantle gun, and have wheels all round. SO
as TO reduce the friction to the smallest
possible degree. The seats would be ar
ranged so that the passengers would sit
tandem-or they might lie down."
4" lOu saw SDeed of 600 ,niIaa ~,
hour could be attained ?"
Yes. That is as fast as the rate at
which the earth turns on its axis"
"Then would not that result in your
projectile coming to dead stop if it moved
In direction contrary to the earth's reyo-
luton ?"
"Well-I-ah-yes, certainly it looks
like that but that's all right"
Would this way of travelling be safe ?p
Precautions will be taken to insure its
safety. There might be some danger of
the conveyance or projectile going off on
a tangent when it reached the end of the
tube; but it will be shot right I'D a
grooved incline, and slow up and stop.
But before any one goes through / will
make trial trips with dogs and such, and.
if they come ont, FL venture the passage
myself. No one will make it till l have
first done so.'
well, | hope may live to goto Europe
that way"
"Fll give you free pass Good-by.'
And the sanguine inventor departed,
while the reporters mind reverted to Gull
liver and Laputa and the College of Sages
and cucumbers and sunbeams. and he could
not but think that the retrospect had
something to do with the case.-lNew York
Tribune.
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----
Physique of American Woman.

Mr.. Higginson in his Common Sense
about Women" is very angry with the
physiological croakers'' who represent the
American woman of to-day as having lost
the plumb form and robust condition of
her grandmother. He quotes a French
tourist in America, the Able Robin. who
wrote in 1882, that sat 20 years of age the
woman have no longer the freshness of
youth" and another, l.. f. de Beauiour,
who wrote that "at the age of % their
form changes, and at 80 the whole of their
charms have disappeared" Mr.. Higgin-
son is convinced that the physique of
American men and women to-day is better
than was that of their grand parents who
lived in this country; and he attributes
this improvement to ''the great increase of
athletic games; the greatly increased
proportion of seaside and mountain
life in summer; the thicker shoes and
boots of women and little girls, permitting
them to go out more freely in all weathers,"
and the increased habit of dining late.
which secures the professional and mercan-
tile classes more time to digest their prin-
cipal meal.-Henry T. Fiack IN the Epoch
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Selecting Sheen

Henry Stewart says that more mistakes
are made in choosing sheep than in anv
other business in agriculture. This is
chiefly because of our hot summer climate
a I'd the i'll adaptation of the most popular
leep for the excessive heats of our sum-
mers, Most people like big things-big
horses, big COWS and big sheep-and the
big stories told of these are often delusive.
Certainly this is true of the large English
breeds which have been quite profitable in
their own country-to the breeders who
have found profitable markets for their
rams and lambs. These sheep have heavy
bodies, heavy, loose, open fieeces of long,
coarse wool, and are excessively given to
making fat
To thrive they require more liberal
feeding upon fodder crops, roots, grain and
oil cakes. But when brought from the
moist cismate of England, with the rape.
mangels, American corn and cotton-seed
meal, and subjected to our excessive
winter cold, the dry hay and spare living.
the poor pasture and the intolerable sum
mer heats, they fall victims to all ills
which make sheep "an unhappy flock,'
and yet thousands of farmers are misled
by the pictures in agricultural papers to
give large prices for these sheep. which
are wholly untitled for our climate and
keeping, except for the sole purpose of
crossing upon our more hardy natives.
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from an aggravating cold in the head,
collie, etc
| If the children have already taken cold
and eough-complaining of a tightness
IN the chest, try this: Into half pint of
| ICY cold water dissolve two tablespoonfuIs
| OF SAT- bathe the chest with this. apply
ing with cloth. sponge or hand, completing
by siapplng vigorously and rubbing with
rough towel. The glow that will appear
VIII not be merely external. but will ex
tend throughout the body, giving feeling
OF buoyancy and great ease in breathing.
Every mother knows how cough remedies
almost invariably upset" the bobv's
stomach. Then the wise parent will try
everything else before she uses nauseons
medicines to ease her child's cough and
breathing.
In how many families there is a child
more delicate than the rest-one that docs
not develop as well as he should, is nearly
always sick, and is altogether the cause of
more care and anxiety than all the others
combined Cold salt water baths is what
the child should have. If he can be taken
TO the ocean, so much the better.
A mother of six children said to me last
autumn: . cannot imagine what makes
the children dwindle and weaken so imme-
dlately when | return from the ocean.
There, at the seaside, | never have a
thought of them and they are perfectly
well; but, as soon as | return home aoa;n
have to send for the doctor, and all win,
ter 1t is remarkable week, indeed when
he isn't called to see one of them. Pnen-
monla, bronchitis, Group and sniffiog-ev-
erything !! On, dear | do get so worn
oHtw win
! sympathetically asked her whv she
DIDN'T continue the ocean bath at home
Frances ". johnson, in Good Housefecpipo.
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Solid Roman Masonry.

The application of volcanic scoria of
pumice to the construction of the vaulting
of the corridors of the amphitheater at
Cantania is worthy of observation, and
bears witness to the constructive ability of
the Roman builders. The springings and
various main ribs are executed in very
sound brickwork, while the interstices,
spandrels and other parts of the vaulting
are wholly executed with this light vet
hard material, in its rough state, but run
in solidly with Pozzolana cement. That
this mode of construction is substantial is
evident from the permanence of the
work in these ancient corridors. The
dome of the Pantheon at Rome is executed
in the same manner, and has stood the
sieges, earthquakes and all other causes of
damage and decay for nearly 1900 years. 1t
is certainly worthy of inquiry whether a
safe, permanent, perhaps economical vault
ing might not be similarly executed with
coke, a material which has many of the
properties of a volcanic scoria, is extremely
light, and yet so hard as to be able, like
the diamond, to scratch GLASS;. .Smirke,
Il. A., IN London Architect.
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How to Destroy the English sparr,w

Ii is long lane that has no turn. the
English sparrow has had things his own
way in this country for some wears past,
but day OF reckoning is at hand. The
unspeakable bird has been bulldozing the
American people in regular English fash
ION for good while, but it looks as if its
days were numbered. The remedy for the
English sparrow is to eat him. They are
beginning to do this in New York. and
when once it becomes fashionable there the
fashion Will spread, and the sparrow will
have to go. The New York Times saws
hundreds of them are now caught bv enter
prlslng people for sale to certain restaur-
ants where reed birds are in demand. A
German woman on Third avenue has three
traps set every day, and she catches prob
ably seventyfve week They are cooked
and served to the boarders the same as reed
birds, and are declared quite as great a
dellcacy. This German woman bastes
them, leaving the little wooden skewer in
the bird when served They are cooked
with bit of bacon. She tempts them
with oats, and after the catch they are fed
awhile with boiled oateu meal. She
sprlnkles oaten meal in the back yard also.
and thereby fattens the free birds. The
females are the cheice meat The males
can be told by the circle of white feathers
at the neck. The females are as plain rs
Quakeresses. So soon as it becomes GEN
orally known that the sparrow is a table
bird, their number will rapidly grow less
-IndIIndp0Lts Journal